Re: FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:22 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I have an external USB drive permanently attached. If for some reason
it's turned off, the boot process will log some errors and continue.
This is my fstab line:

LABEL=/xtra     /xtra     ext3    defaults  1 2

Note that it's ext3. ntfs-3g via FUSE may complicate things, I don't
know.

It could also be that my experience is out of date. I have not tried this since I was bitten by it on a system I was troubleshooting. Or it could be that using the LABEL=<label> form is more tolerant then the <device> form. I guess I need to do some experimenting when I have time.

The LABEL=<label> form is to guarantee that the correct device will be
mounted. /dev/<whatever> is unreliable for USB because devices can come
online in random order.

poc

Is there a difference in how mount handles things if the drive is missing if you use the LABEL= form? I know in the past, the system would not boot normally if you used the device form and the drive was not there.

Mikkel
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